The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1887-06-24

liquor in Kansas is 500, together with al
the costs of the case, including $25 i'm at
torney's fees and also thirty days in the
county jail This is the penalty for each and
every sale of liquor proved, and the law il
so worded that the fines and the terms of i'm
prisonment can be piled up. In Shawnee
county there is a man worth $6D, n3l in Jail
He has been sell en"d to seven ,u.niils' ill
PriSonient and 500 fine. Before this law
passed he was a wholesale liquor ,i,ilier, but
he thought he could make fortune by going
into partnership with number of drug
stores and having the drug stores sell Tie
liquor on the sly His name did not appear
i'll these partnerships. The druggists were.
however, found guilty of liquor selling and
he was implicated with then His riches
does not save him, and the laws of ka,I&r.
are pretty well enforced without regard to the
wealth or position of the criminal
Can you convict men for liquor selling a
easily as for the ordinary crimes on the cal
endar?"
eyes. l investigated this matter. wrote
to all the clerks of courts in Kansas and ]
found that in the case of liquor selling 81 per
cent. OF ali those tried were convicted. In
ordinary crimes only SO per cent. were con
victed. Public sentiment in Kansas is en-
tirely in favor of prohibitory law, and we
have little trouble now in enforcing it. A
great change of sentiment is going on, and
the day will come when it will be almost i'm
possible for a drunkard to exist in Kansas.
Already in thirty seven counties of the state
counties which have an aggregate of 500,-
600 people-the average amount of liquor sold
is one bottle Of beer to every eight persons
during eighty days. These localities are
where they have no saloons, and in these
counties the amount of liquor sold amounted
to only $4,000 q month, while in Leaven-
worth county the sales OF liquor amounted to
$4,000 month, or 40 per month for every
man, woman and child in the city, OF to an
aggregate of 100000 per year. We have,
however, cut off this licuor dealing in Leaven-
worth, as told you before"
"Wbat has become of st. John"
awe do not keep track of st. John in Kan
sas and we do not pretend to answer any
question in regard to him."
"Tell me something about the municipal
suffrage of Kansas"
"By municipal suffrage, as distinguished
from universal suffrage, in Kansas, is meant
the recent law which permits women to vote
for all city officers. This law has gone into
effect and we have had our first election un-
der it. The best women in Kansas have
voted and the election went off better than
any in our previous history. One of cur laws
prohibits ticket peddlers from coming within
fifty feet of the polls There were 10 objection
able characters among the females who voted,
as far as could be learned, and the element
taking advantage of the suffrage was made
up of the best of Kansas women. The
women attended the caucuses which nomi-
mated the various candidates, and the election
shows that better and higher grade of can
didates were chosen than in the past. This
woman suffrage strengthens the prohibitory
element in Kansas and prohibition feeling is
very fast growing. have no doubt but that
prohibition will eventually be a great ma
tional issue in this country and that the
United States will ultimately be prohibition
country"
allow is Kansas satisfied with its two SEN
ators?"
Every well indeed, and it feels that it has
right to be proud of them. ingalls, is great
statesman and a great orator, and Plumb is
great statesman and great iinancier. We
think great deal of Plumb out in Kansas.
He is one of the solid men of the west, and is
worth, suppose, s1,OO0,0O0 He has made
his money himself He came west poor He
established a printing office at Emporia and
studied and practiced law there. He saved
his money and became banker. He specu-
lated and invested, and he now owns lands
all over Kansas. He is a man Of great COM
mon sense, is unpretentious in both his man.
ners and life, and is noted both for his gener-
osity and charity.
"Ingalls lives at Atchison, and is well to do.
He has many friends, and he is noted in Kan
sas for loving his friends and not caring very
much for his enemies. The people of the
west are proud of the reputation which he
has made within the past few years, and they
feel that in him they have one of the biggest
men in the country as their representative.
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met Senator Plumb, of Kansas last night
and had a chat with him over the interstate
commerce law Senator Plumb thinks that
the law will be of great ultimate benefit to
the country. He says that it will injure some
of the large corporations and some interests
at the beginning, but chat in the end it will
work great goo.l to the country at large. "It
will have" says he, "the effect of distributing
the industries and manufactures of the
country, and will tend to the building up of
the smaller towns at the expense Of the cities.
It will not allow monopolies to crowd out the
smaller firms by great rebates ON freight.
Take, for instance, Philip Arnlour's meat es-
tablishment at Kansas City. Armour can
have packed here 1000 car loads of hogs. He
can then 60 to the railroads and say: Now I
want your lowest rate for the shipping of
these to Chicago, and if you do not give it
will go to one of the other railroads. The
freight at the time is perhaps light on the
railroad. They have to keep their cars run
ming at any rate, and they will take Armour's
meat for little more than the actual cost OF
the wear and tear of the cars. The result is
the pork is put into Chicago at less rate
than any small dealer cau send 1T there, and
the small dealer is crowded out OF
the market. lii the same way a butcher
within hundred miles of Chicago makes his
living out of killing the dry COWS of the
Armour comes to him and
says: Now, can sell You better meat than
this and at less price. There is M use in
Your killing these cows. Let them be sent to
Chicago and sold.' The butcher, perhaps, re-
fuses. lie can make more from selling the
cows he buys from THE TURNER'S and tile farm
them to Chiergo. Armour then establishes
his own butcher, and by reduction of the
rates of freight, which lie can secure. he can
sell at such prices that the home butcher is
crowded out of the market This viii, /
think, lie impossible under the new law, and |
it is only ain instance of many WAYS in which
ir will benefit the smaller dealers of the coun-
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